SPHENOMORPHUS 



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in contact with rostral, separated from frontal by prefrontals, 

 which are broadly in contact ; frontal almost triangular, pointed 

 behind, not longer than fronto-parietals, much shorter than 

 fronto-parietals and interparietal together; fronto-parietals 

 separated by a suture; interparietal 

 large, as wide as frontal, losenge- 

 shaped, almost equilateral; parietals 

 in contact behind interparietal; four 

 supraoculars, subequal, the two an- 

 terior in contact with frontal; eight 

 superciliaries ; nostril pierced in 

 nasal; a single frenal behind nasal; 

 lower eyelid scaly; supralabials 

 separated from eye by a row of 

 small scales; fourth supralabial 

 beneath center of eye; temporals 

 not differentiated as shields, consist- 

 ing only of ordinary cycloid scales 

 but slightly larger than those on the 

 back ; no enlarged nuchals ; ear-open- 

 ing roundish, large, fully two-thirds 

 the eye-opening; 30 smooth scales 

 around the middle of the body ; a pair 

 of enlarged preanals; legs weak and digits short; the distance 

 between tip of snout and foreleg contained about once and one- 

 half in distance between axilla and groin ; hind leg slightly longer 

 than distance from center of eye to foreleg, adpressed fore and 

 hind legs fail to meet on the side of the body by more than the 

 length of the foot ; third toe almost as long as fourth ; 10 smooth 

 lamellae under fourth toe; tail cylindric, slightly longer than 

 head and body together, without enlarged scales underneath." 



Color (in alcohol) . — *'Above chestnut brown, very indistinctly 

 spotted with paler and darker brown; a well-defined blackish 

 lateral band from eye to groin and continued behind thigh along 

 the side of the tail, with small whitish spots and bordered above 

 on neck and anterior half of back by a narrow pale brown band ; 

 lips, chin, throat, neck underneath and on the sides bluish 

 black, the sutures more or less regularly edged with whitish ; rest 

 of underside and flank whitish, densely sprinkled with minute 

 dark brown dots on sides, lower abdomen, underside of legs 

 and tail; legs above dark brown, with small, pale spots." 



Fig. 29. Sphenomorphus atrigularis 

 Stejneger; after Stejneger ; a, head, 

 dorsal view ; h, head, lateral view ; 

 enlarged. 



